Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-31

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A saloon at Culbertson was destroyed by
hre Friday last.
The Onshs cable line will DC in Operation
In two mon his.
The mail route between Fremont and Everett
has been resumed.
Plaus for an extensive new hotel have beea
received at Lincoln.
The Schuyler Sun has declared itself for
B a'ne and Lincoln.
George A. Fair, Of Dakota City, has been
commissioned notary.
Extensive losses are still realized from hog
cholera near Ia frnige.
Lincoln authorities are ysDking in the
swindlers at a iive.y rate.
Rising CITY now suppo. is u s6,900 school
house, OF recent erection.
About a., 0 0 has been subscribed TO the
anti.coerciop tdnd at Lincoln.
Mountain lions are becoming extensively
promiscuous in Logan county.
Gov. Thay,r and ST. II VIII attend q military
ball anymore on the 23i inst.
Over 800 Kn'ghts of p thias attended the
ceremonies at Ashland Tuesday.
s. s.. Parks, Of Chadron, dropped dead Of
heart disease at Wahoo Saturday.
A warehouse has beer constructed AZ FIRE.
mont for the storage Of Qlincy beer.
A new enterprise in the way OF a book
binderY has matcrialized at Nebraska Z ~.
Nearly Z 900, 900 worth Of real estate has
been transferred at Hastings the pest year.
Fremont has made an offer of So, 900 bonus
to secure a canning company at that place.
securing Missouri liver rates.
Members Of the Lincoln stock yards are
comulaiuipg OF email receipts.
The city attorney OF South Omaha broke his
hand while boxing Thursday.
The Missou Pacific has appealed from the
coin.
Rt. Rev. T. Bonacum was installed Tuesday
as Catholic Bishop OF Lincoln on Tuesday. A
number Of clergy from abroad were present.
Steps will be taken this winter to make
Omaha a port Of entry.
A fire at Weeping Water Monday completely
destroyed five bu | iings, including odd Eel
lows block; loss, $4,000.
The bank clearings at Omaha Tuesday
amounted to 1853, SCS. And the collections at
the internal revenue Office were $6,97l.23.
Hon. j. G Watson, mem1e of the last leg
leila ure, was IN nii:d Monday to Miss Larsch,
daughter OF the mayo or of Nebraska City.
Congressman Mcshaue has framed a bill for
congress asking an appropriation OF 81 500,
600 for a postofice and custom house building
al Omaha.
Walter Martin, while coupling a train at
Oconee last Saturday, fell uuder the wheels,
which, posing over him, caused injuries which
were fatal.
The commissioners Of johnson county &C
cuse the county officials OF receiving brides
from printing , al ,es for ps. image and Their
presenting ormou bills .og materials fur.
ni-hed.
John Ogden, a youth OF Nebraska City
was severely Injured by being dragged across
a lot with a rope which he had attached TO
cows horns and then tied around his body.
Cat Of atty-tour Italian laborers paid off OF
the Burlington and Missouri at Lincoln, Thurs
day, only two could sign their names to III
r,ceipts. They were the foreman and hi
son. .
Friday the land commissioned at Lincoll
sent a notice to 800 d~elin~uents on schoo
land leases and ssles In Lancaster, Otoe, Mer
rick and Hull counties inviting them to com
and settle up.
Ascnool teacher at Beatrice classified a DO,
severely and was ined IS for 1t. The schoo
taken and raised bis salary $40 per month II
consequence.
1t has developed that the man brough
to Central City by q Pinkerton detective las
week, as the man who lone the bank OF tina
place for s2, 900 last summer, 10 Lot the mas
who was wanted.
Charles Montgomery, who has been assum
ing the name OF Worth, at Columbus, WAS ar
rested Saturday night by a detective ant
taken to the southern part OF the state, wher,
he is charged with a grave crime.
Saturday closed the first weeks slaughter
Ing at South Fremont. 1t has been a very satis
factory starting. Seventeen hundred hogs
have ben killed, which is a good showing,
considering that everything is entirely new.
Ii has been demonstrated that u good supply
Of hogs can be obtained here.
A wreck occurred on the Fremont, Elkhorn
and Missouri Valley road Sunday, about four
miles east o; Fremont. The section men
were repairing a email bridge and had taken
out one stringer to replace IL with another.
They put out q flag as a danger signal, but
the engineer failed to see 1t and ran into the
bridge. The engineer and Ar, m Al jumped In
time to save themselves. The engine and four
cars were badly wrecked.
Frank Norton, y plumber, witt two com
panions OF Omaha, attempted to steal = ride
across the Union Pacific bridge on the cow
catcher Of an engine. Suddenly he was seen
by the engineer to fall head first through the
bridge. His bsdy WI found sixty-hve feet
below crushed almost to a Jelly. His compan.
ions volunteered TO watch the body until the
coroner was summoned, but when that officer
arrived both mea were missing, as was also
Norton's gold wa'c1 and money. No trace OF
the two men can be found. 1t Is believed tina,
they murdered Norton.
Dako q City special: The charge upon
which the Ketffts, or Jackson, were broueh,
to this place Thursday is one Of o more seri-